Years
26 films in this collection
Collection no. #75313 minEdwin S. Porter
13 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
Bandits seize a railway office, stop a train and rob the passengers before escaping with their loot. A rescued telegraph operator raises the alarm,…
Collection no. #12731 minGeorge Albert Smith
1 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: zxx.
Two children care for an ailing kitten in a brief domestic scene. The camera moves closer to the animal, turning a small gesture of care into the…
Collection no. #8681 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A demon feeds victims into a blazing cauldron in a chamber arranged for supernatural spectacle. The figures rise again as ghostly forms and turn into…
Collection no. #10692 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An Egyptian prince asks a priest to bring his dead wife back to life. The ritual animates a skeleton, which acquires a shroud and begins an…
Collection no. #12335 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
The cakewalk moves into an infernal setting populated by dancing devils. Bodies, entrances and stage effects make the fashionable routine part of a…
Collection no. #12652 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Georges Méliès appears as a ballet master in a short fantasy that brings dance and cinematic illusion together. Stage performer Zizi Papillon joins…
Collection no. #12801 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A thief breaks into a temple after its priests leave a treasure behind. A mysterious guardian interrupts the theft, brings statues to life and…
Collection no. #12812 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A music master turns telegraph wires into a giant musical staff. Copies of his own head become the notes, allowing a band to perform a tune in a…
Collection no. #12822 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
The supposed power of spirit photography becomes a magic performance in this Méliès short. Photographic apparitions are presented as opportunities…
Collection no. #13153 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Refused a gift, a witch places a spell on the village well. An everyday meeting place becomes the source of magical disturbances, testing the people…
Collection no. #13592 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An executioner's display becomes a trick-film spectacle in which severed heads remain disturbingly active. Méliès plays the central role, combining a…
Collection no. #13806 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Faust and Mephistopheles advance through an infernal world of demons and changing scenery. Their journey unfolds as a succession of theatrical…
Collection no. #13843 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Méliès appears as a magician in a spectacle of transformations, fire and flowing water. Human figures and an enlarged head become elements in an…
Collection no. #13853 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A musketeer becomes the centre of a display in which a circular opening frames an enlarged face. Magical appearances and transformations turn the…
Collection no. #13902 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A traveller tries to read at an inn, but his candle begins moving and growing beyond control. An attractive apparition emerges from the resulting…
Collection no. #13923 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A king orders an elderly sorcerer to be tortured. The prisoner tries to win mercy with a magical performance, but when the monarch remains unmoved,…
Collection no. #14135 minLucien Nonguet
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
William Tell defies a governor's authority and must shoot an apple from his son's head. The ordeal becomes part of a broader struggle in which the…
Collection no. #14332 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician dresses and transforms a mannequin, shifting between an inert figure and the appearance of life. The short presents the tricks directly as…